In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Summary

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include

• “A Horseman in the Sky,”
• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”
• “Chickamauga,”
• “A Son of the Gods,”
• “One of the Missing,”
• “Killed at Resaca,”
• “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch,”
• “The Coup de Grâce,”
• “Parker Adderson, Philosopher,”
• “An Affair of Outposts,”
• “The Story of a Conscience,”
• “One Kind of Officer,”
• “One Officer, One Man,”
• “George Thurston,” and
• “The Mocking-Bird.”

Bierce’s stories about the lives of civilians during the Civil War period include

• “The Man Out of the Nose,”
• “An Adventure at Brownville,”
• “The Famous Gilson Bequest,”
• “The Applicant,”
• “A Watcher by the Dead,”
• “The Man and the Snake,”
• “A Holy Terror,”
• “The Suitable Surroundings,”
• “The Boarded Window,”
• “A Lady from Red Horse,” and
• “The Eyes of the Panther.”